The 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has revealed why he ignored the LP’s National convention in Anambra State.
Speaking on X Space hosted by Parallel Facts on Friday, Obi revealed that he ignored the convention because the party leadership under Julius Abure failed to conduct wide consultation with key stakeholders of the party before embarking on the said convention.
He went ahead to stress the need for the right thing to be done to salvage the party, adding that he is more passionate about building a new Nigeria than building a new Labour Party.
“We promised to build Nigeria, we did not promise to build a New Labour Party,”
“It is the standard practice around the world where movements form themselves into blocs and are part of the political process,” he said.
Recall that Abure was reelected during the controversial national convention organized in Anambra State, even though two factional groups respectively led by him and Apapa Lamidi have been claiming supremacy; this is even as the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, is against Abure’s leadership of the party
